210 THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



a long pit, only separated from the sea by the wall (i.e. a long mound of earth 

 to keep the sea from flooding the meadows), but we were too late. Harker 

 found one living specimen, and the remains of many more were floating on 

 the surface of the water. Gataclyda lemnalis and Hydrocampa stagnalis 

 were common enough about the ditches. 



A collector stood beside the lake, 



Whence all but he' had fled ; 

 He came, Acentropus to take 



Alive, or if not, dead. 



The wind blew fierce, he would not go 



Without a search around, 

 Among the herbage rank that grew 



Upon his hunting ground. 



Upon his brow the wild wind blew, 



And through his waving hair ; 

 Yet still he searched that lonely spot, 



In chill, but brave despair. 



• " Oh, Nivsus! Niveus ! must I go, 



Without a single take ! ' 1 

 The wintry winds aloud replied, 

 " It's fragments strew the lake." 



With killing bottle, boxes, net, 



That well had borne their part ; 

 Without a single specimen 



For home he had to start. 



OBNOXIOUS AND INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



By JOSEPH CHAPPELL. 



Continued from page 201. 



S- attenuata is recorded as occurring on flowers at Salisbury. 



S. revestita is recorded as occurring on flowers at Windsor, Colney 

 Hatch and Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. 



S- nigra occurs at Darenth, Ripley, Suffolk, and South Wales. 



S» melanura is found in hedges in Burnt Wood, Staffordshire, and 

 generally distributed in the South of England. 



Leptura virens is recorded as occurring on decayed trees in the Forest 

 of Dean. 



L. rufa. 



L* SCUtellata is found in old trees, in the New Forest. 



